Timothy Pullen’s family share video calling for information

One cruel question has plagued Leanne Pullen’s thoughts every day for the past decade – where is Tim? For the 10th anniversary of his death his family have made an impassioned plea to find his body. Watch the video.

One cruel question has plagued Leanne Pullen’s thoughts every day for the past decade – where is Tim?

But now his family have renewed hope a heartfelt video may trigger someone to step forward.

His loved ones have been living under a shroud of torment since he was violently snatched from a unit on Valley St in April 2012.

Tim Pullen was violently snatched and killed at a Valley St unit in April 2012.

Tim’s body has never been found, so his family have never been able to respectfully lay him to rest and say their final goodbyes.

To honour him on the 10th anniversary of his disappearance and death his sister Angela pieced together a heartbreaking tribute, that has been shared hundreds of times on social media, calling for information.

Mrs Pullen said she hoped this might lead to someone, anyone with information, finally breaking their silence.

“It really is unfathomable. There has to be people out here with information but they remain tight lipped,” Tim’s mother said.

“I really don’t understand why they would keep this information to themselves unless there is incriminating evidence with Tim’s remains.

“What do they have to gain other than prolonging the family’s grief and heartache.”

Gary and Leanne Pullen want to lay their son to rest. Tim's remains have still not been found.

On or about April 16 2002, Tim was abducted from the Valley St unit where friends were letting him couch surf – friends, who had left the door unlocked for his attackers.

Police believe Tim was killed at the unit over a $7000 drug debt and his body was then stashed in a nightclub coldroom before it was dumped in bushland near Collinsville.

Mrs Pullen said she can remember the day police told her their belief he had been killed as if it was yesterday.

“It’s hard to get your head around that someone is deceased when you don’t actually have a body,” she said

“I really struggled with that for quite a while.”

Zane Tray Lincoln was initially charged with murdering Tim Pullen but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Picture: Darryn Smith/Sunshine Coast Daily

But then Nicholas Voorwinden and Keira McKay pleaded guilty to manslaughter in March 2015 over their involvement in his death – they left the unit door unlocked.

Then in May 2016 Zane Tray Lincoln, the mastermind behind the plot, and Benjamin Francis Graeme Oakley pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

And the following day Stephen Dale Renwick and Luke Shayne Kister accompanied police to a location near Collinsville in an attempt to find the body they had dumped more than four years earlier.

They also pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter.

Stephen Dale Renwick after he was released on bail following his arrest in 2013.

“Once they pleaded guilty, I realised this is real,” Mrs Pullen said.

Everyone but Lincoln has served their time behind bars, with Renwick the most recent to be released while the Pullen family has “so far served a 10-year sentence of no answers, so funeral and a whole lot of heartache” in her video.

For almost three years while sitting at her breakfast bar in her Mackay home, Mrs Pullen said she was “tormented by my thoughts”.

“Every time I would hear a noise I would turn around thinking it was Tim at the door,” she said.

“I could hear that constantly and I kept imagining it.

Luke Shayne Kister was arrested and charged with being an accessory after the fact over the death of Timothy Pullen. He was photographed after being released on bail in 2013.

“I looked out for that for a long time.”

Since Tim’s death the Pullens advocated for the No Body No Parole laws that came into effect in 2017 to keep killers behind bars until they reveal the location of their missing victims.

They also pushed for the new laws, which initially only related to murder, to include any related homicide charge.

Even 10 years later, Mrs Pullen said the hurt did not become easier.

“I have found this year the worst by far,” she said.

“Who would ever have imagined that 10 years on we still haven’t laid Tim to rest respectfully?

“Our whole family … We all live in hope that we will find Tim.”

Mrs Pullen respectfully mentioned the Wallman family, who have been waiting 50 years for answers.

“It just feels like you have a big black cloud hanging over your head,” she said.

“Where is he? When are we going to get that phone call?”

Mrs Pullen said as a mother she needed to be able to lay her son to rest.

“We’re just waiting. We’re really living in hope now that with Angela’s video, that maybe somebody will come forward with information,” she said.

“I don’t believe we’re ever going to find Tim through the perpetrators.

“I do believe it’s going to be from somebody reading the story and thinking we’re going to ring Crime Stoppers.”